SkreemR - a search engine for music files

SkreemR is a handy music search engine, "The World's Greatest Mp3 Search Site".

Online Guitar Lessons

If you have always wanted to learn how to play the guitar, you will be pleased about a fantastic site called Online Guitar Lessons. The site, created by Rich Bagnall, offers free online guitar tuition!

Lyrster - a music search engine

Lyrster is a handy lyrics search engine. It's very easy to use - just type in some of the words that you can remember, and Lyrster will search sites ("350+ lyrics websites") and come back with quick results for you to match with your query.

Brit Music Scene - a blog

Brit Music Scene is a lively blog which covers the British music scene.

It's written by Dave Parrack, "a 30 year old freelance writer, and long time blogger" from the London area but currently living just outside Manchester, England.

Choose British: Buy British food & products

Choose British provides advice and information about buying British food and British products.

Choose British encourages everyone to "shop patriotically" and support British agriculture and British industry.

The site also provides informative articles about British music and British films.

Free professional guitar lessons

justinguitar.com is a site where you can get free professional guitar lessons from Justin Sandercoe, "a London based guitarist, songwriter, performer, producer and educator who grew up in Tasmania (a little island off the South East coast of Australia) but has been based in London since 1996."

Watch Justin on this YouTube video for a guitar lesson and learn how to play "Trouble" by Coldplay. There are a lot more lessons on YouTube. Justin provides a useful list.

Free online guitar lessons

If you've always wanted to learn how to play the guitar, this site is for you:

Cyberfret.com - "Your source for free guitar lessons on the web"

Learn to play the guitar online, through a variety of free lessons and articles. Guitar lessons use video, audio, flash, MIDI, and tablature.

A website for singers

Vocalist is an invaluable resource for singers. Take time to peruse the site and you will "find useful information on aspects of singing, performance, plus free online singing lessons and articles for vocalists related to singing and getting into the music industry."

The site also contains a page of music industry contact Databases Listings & Links Index

Impressed? There's more! You can add your gigs FREE to the online Gig Guide.

Classical music, concerts, news

Opus 1 Classical is a very useful resource for those looking for worldwide classical music and opera events.

This is an impressive site. There are currently 25,518 concerts in the database!